4 Dog Brewery

The weather may start to cool down in early June. You only need 10 days of reasonable weather to make this. If not, don't. Can't do any temp control. The forecast is mainly cool with themps around 22C. I think I can make this on the bench and close the door if needed. I can always move the pails upstairs if I have to. I am going ahead and using well water for this batch. Marty made his wine with their well water and he had no problem with it. Made both on June 12.                        FIRST TIME USING WELL WATER - HOPE IT WASN'T A MISTAKE Spring water comes from the ground a few miles north of us. My well water comes from the ground. The only thing is sanitation. I don't think spring water is sanitized. It is captured from an under ground spring and pumped into trucks for transport. Mine is similar, so I went with it. I do have a water softener and turning the valve off is a no no. It is quite hard to do so I never touch it. ...

Tossed this one and the next one out. Just way too much hops at the 60 min. mark. What were you thinking? I need to go through my recipes more and think about how it will taste. I should of used some Magnum at the 60 min. mark with some Hallertauer at the end of the boil, but not too much. Keep it light. Make a starter on June 5 - One step. Pitched the Kolsch in the flask at around 3 pm. I forgot to add some wort to the package of Kolsch or even massage it to get all of it to come out of the package. Next time you have to add some wort and put in a long handled spoon to mix it all up. At least shake it a lot to mix in with the already wort in it. In the end though, I got it all as I added a lot of wort from a plastic cup and shook it somewhat. Hard to do as the risk of spillage was great. I ended up with 4.5 L in the flask. Starter done on June 7. Took out the over build and am ready for brewday. Looking at the 5 L flask, I seem to get more yeast in the over build than I do after I tak...